Pictures from the weekend

That's the littlest guy, Desi. He's sweet isn't he?

Tony with his V-Day present. I just realized I haven't taken very many pictures of Eli lately. I'll try and do that this week. And the Mr. should be posting some videos of our trip to the zoo.

Bi-Lingual Babies

So, I speak spanish. Not fluently but pretty good. Good enough to practice law in spanish. I never thought much about my kids speaking spanish until lately, for a few reasons. There's a daycare at my job for kids of employees and all the little kids there speak spanish. Also, my kids hear me speak spanish to them and they can't respond or don't understand.

Lately Eli has taken to throwing a rolled "r" into words and then saying, "look mami i speak spanish" i.e. "water-rrr" is water in spanish or "thrrrree" is three in spanish. It's cute but kind of sad because it is a part of his culture and everyone in his direct lineage speaks spanish (except for my mom).

So now i'm wondering if i'm doing my kids a disservice (sp) by not teaching them spanish now or should i leave it up to them if they want to learn later? knowing spanish has helped me in life so i'm sure it will help them but i didn't start speaking until i was in my 20's. and how do i make the switch now? I'm thinking i should change their daycare and start bringing them here because they'll be surrounded by it.

- The Mrs.

ZOO!

So, in an effort to tire our children out...and spend more time with them (yeah...) we took them to the zoo last weekend. And we had a blast! Tony was by far the most entertaining and entertained. He loved the turtles. Eli was going about a million miles a minute and wouldn't slow down. And Desi's still little. I'm excited to take them back when the giant tortoises are out of hibernation! I've been thinking about buying a season pass. It could be worth it. Thoughts?

Also, I think we're going to add a video component to the blog. We purchased one of those hip little flip type camera's for our grown up trip to Guatemala and used it at the zoo. Turns out it's pretty awesome and we got some great video of the kids at the zoo.

This also has inspired me to think of other things to do with the kids. Suggestions? We spend the whole afternoon at the zoo then we took the kids out for sushi. The whole day was awesome and I really want to find more stuff like that to do with them.

That's Buddy with his chopsticks. He was determined to learn how to use them. Pretty impressive for a 2 year old.

- The Mrs.

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